Am Samstag, dem 27.11.2021 um 14:07 +0100 schrieb Eric Bezault:
Fixed formatting issue in my previous message:
On 27/11/2021 11:44, Paolo Redaelli wrote:
> And adding GTK support
Note that there is already support for GTK in EiffelVision2
(https://github.com/EiffelSoftware/libraries/tree/master/Src/library/vision2/implementation/gtk3
).
So what would be nice is if Liberty Eiffel could support the
ECMA Eiffel dialect, or at least the parts that are often used
in third party Eiffel libraries. It would be so nice to be able
to use Eiffel libraries that already exist out there without
having to worry about what Eiffel compiler we use. This would
avoid duplicating the work and focus on new Eiffel libraries and
tools which are still missing.
In my eyes there are great features in ECMA (like dynamic type
conversion) which make Eiffel a bit more handy, while - on the other
side - I loved Eiffel especially because you know well what's going on
in your code. With convert simple-looking assignments could do a lot of
magic with hard to see side effects. With quite some experience in
safety related low level programming I always dreamed to see Eiffel in
this area and there it would be a nightmare to allow a simple
assignment to consume additional memory...